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"Quantacat's name is still recognised even if he watches on with detached eyes like Peter Molyneux over a cube in 3D space, staring at it with tears in his eyes, softly whispering... Someday they'll get it." - The Conclave

well, they wouldnt be able to moderate it any further. or is the other stuff such a cesspool anyway so it doesnt matter?

Well presumably it's been decided that it doesn't matter if the mods weren't given any power over the 'other stuff' forum. If it's about 'other stuff' it should be moved there, moderating it is then someone else's problem.

I really couldn't give a crap about this particular thread, but your explanation for it is worrying: it's basically saying they didn't move it as they didn't want to lose control over it, which is exactly the sort of weird-arse power trips most of us saw coming when this community mods idea came up.

That and Anthile's making up of his own rules for the forum and posting them makes me think this idea is a couple of weeks from blowing up at most

Pretty much this. What little drama there was was self-contained. The question shouldn't be "what was lost by closing it," but "what was gained by closing it?" If it was off-topic, move it to Other Stuff.

He also justified it by saying some of his best friends are crepes. That's not appropriate mod behavior. How can you be friends with something you are going to shove in your mouth and chew up? That's just cruel.

If I still had any faith in random community members in positions of terrible power I would have lost it here. And the rule reminder thing. Luckily I am already so cynical that further betrayals cannot hurt me.

If I still had any faith in random community members in positions of terrible power I would have lost it here. And the rule reminder thing. Luckily I am already so cynical that further betrayals cannot hurt me.

"In other words, I don't want to dig in people's posting histories and I don't care what you said in the past."

Also that's not his job and he couldn't do that anyway even if he wanted to.

Then he invents an entirely new rule about referral links, which might be good in theory (though there are issues with it), but he pulled it out of his ass rather than doing it because people wanted that doing or because he'd been asked to by the people owning the site.

Literally Hitler? No, but it paints the picture of someone more interested in throwing their own weight around rather than shutting up and getting on with the job, exactly the thing we were talking about avoiding in the election thread.

The thread was useless... partisan sh*t flinging from another community, with locals tossing grenades in. And spam has always been reported and purged... referral links are spam, especially if they're not labelled.

"Quantacat's name is still recognised even if he watches on with detached eyes like Peter Molyneux over a cube in 3D space, staring at it with tears in his eyes, softly whispering... Someday they'll get it." - The Conclave